Word: keenest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gladly give full attention the moment they find some real question of the times being ably discussed in their presence. They listen intently, and they usually have something of their own to say. The students chosen for membership in the intercollegiate debating teams have of course, some of the keenest minds in the lot, and when they come to debate an active and important issue of the hour, as Boston College and Harvard will next Wednesday, we look to see good intellectual fireworks. --Boston Transcript...
...Comrade Kollontay whirled through the streets of Stockholm, alighted at the Palace, tripped in and handed to gangling, venerable King Gustaf her credentials as Soviet Minister to Sweden. Before and after her appointment as Minister to Mex ico, she was Minister to Norway. She rates as one of the keenest, most beguiling diplomats on earth...
...humorless, cranky old maid was Emily Dickinson. Hers was feminine intelligence at its keenest, and many a masculine ponderosity drew her inner smile. Said she: "I believe the love of God may be taught not to seem like bears." Unable to discover the Devil, she concluded: "He must be making war on some other nation." Her definition of poetry is famed among present-day poets: "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire ever can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head...
...sakes and thought provoking. Starting with J. H. Robinson's "The Mind in the Making," they include works by such varied authors as Lenin, Walter Lippman, President Lowell, and John Stuart Mill. For a man in college to cover such a list means to know what some of the keenest minds of the world have thought about the relations between a state and its citizens, and thus to pave the way for intelligent opinions upon the problems that confront his own generation...
Because the British amateur championship was the only major golf event which Bobby Jones had never won, because he privately admitted that to win it was his keenest ambition, because no matter how things might come out he was obviously the best golfer entered, critics in their despatches and sport followers in their talk discussed last week's tournament from a standpoint of "Jones against the field." But few experts figured that he was sure to win. Even the greatest golfer in the world must have a bad round now and then, and in any tournament where five days...